Ponera geometrica

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Ponera geometrica Smith, 1857 an obsolete combination of Diacamma geometricum (Smith, 1857)

Ponera geometrica Smith, 1857a: 67 (w.) SINGAPORE. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Singapore: “SING 3” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901342. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978. 3) Bingham, 1903: 80 (footnote), cites a “type” of this taxon in BMNH; status equivocal.

Citations

Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF

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